As the sun sets on one of the shortest days of the year, a northbound BNSF train kicks up some fresh powder from the tracks just north of Hanley Falls, MN.

When I lived along the Paynesville Subdivision for 7 years, I had plenty of opportunities to take nice backlit sunrise and sunset shots like this. I've been gone from this area for almost 9 years,... (more)

At sunset, an eastbound train crosses the Redwood River on the Minnesota Prairie Line at North Redwood, MN.

At sunset on a frigid winter day, four CAT powered locomotives bring just three cars through Renville, MN on the Twin Cities & Western's former Milwaukee Road mainline.

Just after the sun dipped below the horizon, an eastbound Twin Cities & Western train makes its way along the Minnesota Prairie Line between Fairfax and Gibbon, MN.

A little after sunrise, three four axle Geeps hustle across the frozen prairie landscape of southwestern Minnesota with the northbound Marshall local.

An eastbound Union Pacific train sits near the end of the double track east of Fremont, NE at sunset on Thanksgiving Day. Hopeful that the silence along the rails was a sign that many of the worke... (more)

At sunset on the Sunday after Thanksgiving in 2017, the Union Pacific local out of Worthington arrives to do some work at the Minnesota Soybean Processors plant just north of the small town of Bre... (more)

As the sun nears the horizon on a long summer evening, a BNSF train crosses Split Rock Creek at Ihlen, MN. There used to be a small yard and even a roundhouse just north of here in steam days. Cha... (more)

With the sun setting behind clouds and distant hills, two Union Pacific intermodal trains meet under the Wyoming Highway 89 overpass between Kemmerer and Cokeville. This part of the state is cert... (more)

My last shot of the day and of the OTVR 1483 was appropriately a backlit sunset shot south of Lawndale. Originally built for the Nickel Plate Road almost 60 years ago, this veteran of the rails h... (more)

The sun sets on the South Dakota landscape as an SD60M waits to depart with the Willmar to Aberdeen local. With newer GEs ruling most of BNSF's mainlines, it's always a treat to watch and listen ... (more)

As the sun sets on a beautiful spring day, a single Caterpillar powered GP15 chugs east out of Delhi with a string of cars loaded with corn. This former Minneapolis & St Louis line is now owned b... (more)

The Ruebel Turn is on its way back east after a trip to Sacred Heart to drop off some coal empties and pick up the West End train. Four locomotives and three covered hoppers catch the setting sun... (more)

The setting sun cuts through plenty of ice crystals in the air thanks to a fierce northwest wind and subzero windchill values. After dropping a cut of coal empties on the siding at Sacred Heart, ... (more)